County Passes Pueblo Land Road Access Agreements
According to the Santa Fe New Mexican on January 30, 2018, Santa Fe County Commissioners unanimously approved settlements with four Northern New Mexico pueblos that establish rights of way for certain roadways through the year 2216, finalizing months of negotiations over long-standing access disputes that have bedeviled Pojoaque Basin property owners and threatened to leave funding for a planned regional water system in limbo. The individual deals with the pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso and Tesuque establish the rights of way for some 34 miles of county-maintained roads that run through tribal land, which the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 2013 asserted were in trespass. A copy of the County Resolution 2018-13 is attached that contains the resolution followed by all of the four agreements. Click here.

Government Affairs

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